Coordinates: 37°52′13.98″N 122°15′17.58″W / 37.87055°N 122.2548833°W
| UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design | |
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| Established | 1959[1] |
| Type | Public Professional School |
| Endowment | $1.72 million[2] |
| Dean | Jennifer Wolch [1] |
| Faculty | 100[3] |
| Staff | 45 full-time career staff[3] |
| Students | 944[3] |
| Undergraduates | 653[3] |
| Postgraduates | 291[3] |
| Location | Berkeley, California, USA |
| Website | ced.berkeley.edu |
The College of Environmental Design (CED) of the University of California, Berkeley is located in Wurster Hall[2] on the main UC Berkeley campus. It is composed of three departments: Architecture[3], City and Regional Planning[4], and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning[5]. It is one of the largest such colleges nationally.
The school was founded in 1959 by, William Wurster, T.J Kent, Catherine Bauer, and Vernon DeMars, to encompass disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, environmental planning and city planning, and has served as a nexus for figures like Christopher Alexander, Donald Appleyard,Catherine Bauer, Russell Beatty, Manuel Castells, Clare Cooper Marcus, Galen Cranz, Paul Groth, Peter Hall, Allan Jacobs, Lars Lerup,Donlyn Lyndon, Roger Montgomery, Charles Moore, Donald Olsen, Dan Solomon, Michael Southworth, Michael Tietz, Robert Twiss, Dell Upton, and Sim Van der Ryn among many others.
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Academics
Degrees and Programs
CED awards the following degrees:
Undergraduate
- A.B. Architecture
- A.B. Landscape Architecture
- A.B. Urban Studies
- minors in architecture; city planning; ecological design; environmental design and urbanism developing countries; history and theory of landscape architecture and environmental planning; history of the built environment; and social and sustainable design
Graduate and Postgraduate
- M.Arch. (master of architecture)
- M.S. in Architecture (master of science in architecture)
- M.L.A. (master of landscape architecture)
- M.C.P. (master of city planning)
- M.U.D. (master of urban design)
- M.A. Design (master of art in design)
- Ph.D. Architecture
- Ph.D. Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
- Ph.D. City and Regional Planning;
One of the CED's early innovations during the 1960s was the development of the "four-plus-two" ("4+2") course of study for architecture students, meaning a four-year non-professional Bachelor of Arts in Architecture degree followed by a two-year professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch) degree.[4] The 4+2 program was meant to address the shortfalls of the traditional 5-year professional Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) program, which many architecture educators felt was too rushed and neglected the undergraduate's intellectual development in favor of a strong emphasis on practical design knowledge. The 4+2 program allowed one to receive a broader education including exposure to the liberal arts as an undergraduate and thus a deeper and more thorough education in architectural design as a graduate student.
Admissions
Admission[6] to the College of Environmental Design is highly competitive. Following are the admissions statistics for fall 2006, According to CED's 2007 Annual Report:
Undergraduate
- A.B. Arch: 340 students accepted out of 1,375 applicants, or 24.7%
- A.B. Landscape Architecture: 15 students accepted out of 103 applicants, or 14.5%
- A.B. Urban Studies: 18 students accepted out of 95 applicants, or 18.9%
Graduate and postgraduate
- M.Arch.: 42 students accepted out of 632 applicants, or 6.6%
- M.S. in Architecture: 8 students accepted out of 42 applicants, or 19.0%
- M.L.A.: 42 students accepted out of 149 applicants, or 28.2%
- M.C.P.: 45 students accepted out of 257 applicants, or 17.5%
- Ph.D. in Architecture: 8 students accepted out of 55 applicants, or 14.5%
- Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture: 1 student accepted out of 12 applicants, or 8.3%
- Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning: 5 students accepted out of 62 applicants, or 8.1%
Facilities and Services
The College of Environmental Design has been housed in Wurster Hall on the UC Berkeley campus since the 1960s. Before that, the department of architecture called North Gate Hall[7] its home.
Wurster Hall provides a rich environment for its community – a world class library, drawings archives, research facilities, teaching garden, computer labs, simulation and prototyping labs, fabrication shop, photo lab, galleries, and a café.
Environmental Design Library
The CED also has a large and well-respected library. Its collections include 178,000 volumes, 1200 serials, 200,000 slides, 40,000 photographs, and 8,500 digital images. It has a substantial rare book collection and subscribes to numerous indexes and references.[5]
Environmental Design Archives
William W. Wurster founded the Environmental Design Achieves in 1953, with the personal papers and project records of Bernard Maybeck comprising the inaugural donation. Holding nearly 100 collections, the Archives has become Northern California’s premiere collection of historic architecture and landscape records.
Faculty
There are over 100 faculty members at CED.
Dean
Jennifer Wolch left her post as professor of geography and urban planning at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles to become the college's ninth dean and UC Berkeley's fourth current woman dean.
Wolch’s work in urban planning has focused on the delivery of human services for poor and homeless people in Los Angeles, and on sustainability challenges such as urban sprawl. She also is interested in connections between city form, physical activity and public health, and environmental inequities in people's access to urban parks and recreational resources.
As the founding director of USC's Center for Sustainable Cities, Wolch has promoted sustainable urbanism and research into ways to enhance cities' economic vitality, social justice and environmental quality. Harrison Fraker stepped down in 2008 to return to teaching architecture after 12 years as dean. Sam Davis, a UC Berkeley emeritus professor of architecture, is serving as interim dean until Wolch begins her post at Wurster Hall.
Department of Architecture
Mary Comerio, chair
Complete list of architecture faculty[8]
The search for a new architecture chair is underway and candidates will be interviewed in Fall 2009.
Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Linda Jewell, chair
Complete list of LAEP faculty[9]
Department of City and Regional Planning
Karen S. Christensen, chair
Complete list of DCRP faculty[10]
Visiting Faculty
Complete list[11]
External Relations
Frameworks magazine
Frameworks magazine[12] is published twice a year by the College of Environmental Design. Averaging about 50 pages, each issue centers around an environmental-design related theme and features article written by CED faculty. The color magazine also includes updates from alumni and other college news. It is mailed to 17,500 CED alumni, donors, Bay Area design and planning firms, and all accredited design and planning schools nationwide. Portions of each issue are posted online.
Frameworks staff and production
- Mary Kyle Cocoma, Editor and Director of Alumni and Public Relations, mcocoma@berkeley.edu
- Marnette Federis, copy editor (August 2008 - May 2009)
- Design: Ison Design
- Printing: UC Printing
CED e-News
CED e-News[13] is the College of Environmental Design's free bi-weekly electronic newsletter. It offers updates on what's happening at the college and in the environmental-design field in general. Sections include "upcoming events," "in the news," "awards" and "job opportunities." CED e-News is e-mailed to over 6,000 recipients about 15 times during the school year in their choice of either HTML or text-only format. Each issue is also posted on CED's Web site.
See also
- Center for the Built Environment
- Institute of Urban and Regional Development [14]
Notes
- ^ The CED traces its history back to architecture instruction by Bernard Maybeck in 1894, landscape architecture instruction in 1913, and city-planning instruction in 1948. However, the CED as a cohesive college was founded in 1959, bringing together all three programs.
- ^ Cal Profiles, "College of Environmental Design": http://calprofiles.vcbf.berkeley.edu/
- ^ a b c d e b
- ^ ACSA Architecture Education brief: https://www.acsa-arch.org/students/education.aspx
- ^ "2004-2005 Bulletin: CED Overview" page 6: http://cougar.ced.berkeley.edu/forms/bulletin.pdf
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